Professions are a mode of organization in which work is highly uncertain and contingent, requiring professional practitioners to rely heavily on their individual skill and judgment within the norms of accepted practice for their particular professions. But professionals must often draw on...

Professions are a mode of organization in which work is highly uncertain and contingent, requiring professional practitioners to rely heavily on their individual skill and judgment within the norms of accepted practice for their particular professions. But professionals must often draw on...

This book takes a variety of theoretical and empirical approaches to the issue of organization and authority in the modern corporation. Including contributions from scholars in the US, Germany and Japan, it considers such relations, and the possible advantages of family ownership. The book...